Ticket folding and cutting machine.



.. P. MARCUS. I TICKET FOLDING AND GUTTI'NG MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 2.2, 1969. I v

- Y Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

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TICKET FOLDING AND CUTTING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR 22,1909.

Panented Mar. 22, 1910.

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. WITNESSES; INVENTOR' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX MARCUS, or PHILADELPHIA,

BENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 WILLIAMS a MARCUS COMPANY, A CORPORATIDN OFPENNSYLVANIA. I

TICKET FOLDING AND CUTTING MACHINE.

"atented Mar. 2.2, 1910.

Application filed March 22, 1909. Serial No. 485,126.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX Mancns, a citizen of the UnitedStates,'residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Folding andCutting Machines, of, which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a comparatively simple but extremelyeliicient machine designed particularly for cutting and folding ticketspreparatory to putting the same in book form.

The invention resides particularly in the peculiar feeding, cutting, andfolding devices by which asheet of paper of suitable size, printed orunprinted as desired, may be fed into themachine and cat into a numberof strips, each strip being folded and fed to a'box or hopper located ata predetermined part of the machine.

For a full understanding of theinvention,

reference is to be had to the following detail description and to theaccompanying drawings, in whlch v Figure l -1 s a vertical longitudinalsection .of a machine embodying the invention; Fig.

2 is a top plan view; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view showing moreclearly the arrangement of the adjusting device cooperating with thefolding roll-s; Fig. 1 is asectional view of the same; Fig. a sideelevation of the gear box; Fig. (i is a section of the same, and Fig. 7is a perspective view of a ticket out and folded as .when operated uponby the present machine.

Throughout the following detail description, and on the several figuresof the drawin 's, similar parts are referred to by like re erencecharacters.

In carrying out the invention it is contemplated that the various partsof the machine be mounted upon a suitable frame 1, an end portion ofwhich extends upwardly as shown at 2. At one end of the frame 1 islocated a feeding table 3 above which are arranged on shafts 4c and 5the 'tensionrolls 6 and 7 respectively. The shafts 4 and 5 are connectetogether by yoke plates 8, said l l l I shall be folded and mounted uponcutter shafts 12. The .-hcct of paper is cut into a number of rips as itpasses between the cutters l1 eral strips are fed to folding rolls l3and l-l arranged in the same horizontal plane. small rubber feedingdisks 15 being arranged above the rolls 13 and carried by verticalstandards 16 mounted in suitable bra kets 17 secured to the frame workof the machine. A plurality of adjusting plates in arc mounted on atransverse portion of the frame of the machine and folding roll 14, saidadjusting plates having a plurality of upwardly curving guide tingers 19extending therefrom toward the feeding disks 15 and also having longerand downwardly curvedlingers 20 extendii partially into the spacebetwccn the upper portions of the feed rolls 13 and 1-1. (crtain of thestrips of paper cut by means of the rotary cutters 11 are stopped intheir forward movement by means of thcadjusting plates 18, the foremostedges of said strips passing between the fingers l!) amt-LO. Just as thestrips aforesaid are stopped by the plates 18, andwhile arranged abovethe folding rolls 13 and 11. a plurality of folding devices consistingof fingers 21 supported by arms :32 on a rock shaft 22) move downwardlyand by engaging with the upper sides of said strips, the latter beingshown at 2%, these strips are partly folded and caused to )assdownwardly between the contacting folding rolls 13 and 14 from whencethey are dropped into a hopper or box 2.). Those strips which drop. intothe boxes 27 are retained by means of pressure lingers '36 and thesescv-' As a ticket or strip of paper y when folded drops into the box 25,thellngers 26 are upraised by reason of actuation of the arms 27,.but assoon as the ticket is in the box, the arms 27 are so tuned inopt-rati-on as to move downwardly and cause the fingers 26 to engage andretain the ticket justdropped by slight pressure in the manner shown inFig. 1.

, It is contemplated that a certain number of the strips, four in-thepresent instance, into which the sheetis cut by the cutters '11, dropinto boxes 25. Other strips or tickets after being cut are fed over therolls 13 runway 29 by means of suitable feed rolls 10 and feeding disks15. Those tickets which and l t upwardlv on a are not folded by thefolding rolls 13 and 14 but pass onwardly between i are finally foldedby eoacting folding rolls'13 and 14 located on the elevated portlon 2'of the frame 1. Cooperating with the rolls 13 and l4 are thefoldingfingers 21 similar to the fingers 21 and which are carried byarms 22 operated in any suitable manner from a moving partof' themachine.-

Adjusting plates 18 of course cooperate witli the rolls 13 and 14;

mounted a cam 31 said .It. will be observed that. on a shaft 30 is cam'cooperating with a roller contact on the extremity of a rocker arm 32.The arm 32 istoimected with' the shaft 23 and rotation of the cam 31moves ated by the arm 3211p and down imparting corresptmdmg movement ofcourse to the foldmg fingers 21 carried by the shaft. 23. Onthe shaft isalso mounted a gear 33 for eecentrio connection at 34 with a rod 35connected with an arm 36 on the shaft 28. The arms 27 carrying thepressure fingers 26 are operback-and forth movement of the arm 36 whichactuates the shaft 28, and said arm is also connected by a rod 35 with asnmlararm 36" having arms 2'? supplied with pressure fingers 26. Thefingers 26 perform the same function with respect to tickets droppedinto the hopper 25 as'descrihed with'reference to the" arts 25'and 26. c

It'will'be observed that the outermost tension rolls 6 to which thepaper is fed prearatory to being cut into strips or tickets adapted forslight upward movement.

The purpose above the table 3'tl1efingerS .the table to facilitateaccurate placement of the sheet fed to the sheet is in position,

' plane of this is t'o enable the paper the machine to be placed with vwith stop lingers 37 adapted to be projected above'the of the table 3through openings therelVhen the rolls I are slightly elevated 37projectahove as it is full to its lower inner edge in contact machine.

however, the rolls "6 are dropped into conta'ct with the rolls '6 andthe fingers 37 simultaneously lower so as not to project, above thetable and in order to permit the rolls 6 and 7 to pass the sheet onwardto the feeding rolls 10. The means forelevating the rolls 6 as abovedescribed and operating thefingers 37 comprises the devices now to bedescribed. It may be observed at this time that the various shaftscarrying the rolls above mentioned are intergeared in any suitable .wayand timed for operation ina proper manner of the parts the rolls 10' andAs soon as. the

on the shaft'28 on the ele'-[ vated portion 2 of the frame, said shaft28 sion rolls and pass hopper for retaining the supported thereby. I Thefingers upwardly from from a shaft-39. Also from the shaft 39 is a long,arm 40 having a roller at its outer end adapted to be engaged by a cam41 on the shaft 42. 'lhe-intermittent' up and down movement of the arm40 imparts corresponding movement to the fingers 37 man obvious mannerprojecting orwithdrawing said fin gers from coaction with the-sheetofpaper on the feeding table 3. Spacedbea-rings 43 guided. by pins 44 orlike members, are con-' nected at their upper ends to the yoke plates 8.The members 43 are moved up and down by a cam the upper tension roll (3is slightly elevated at intervals of time to permit the sheet tgbe fedbelow said roll'preparatory to befed onward in the machine. The gear45'i's fight with the shaft 42 and series ofaecesse's therein. Aplurality of spring pressed pins 49 are carried by the member 46 and.are adapted to'be projected at predetermined intervals into the geareoby the stationary cam member-b0 interlocking the gears. p

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a machine of the class described, the

combination with aframe, of a feed table,

tension rolls arran ed above said feedtable,

fingers, a rock, shaftcarrying said arms,

means for moving the arms up and downto impart similar movement to thefolding fin rolls, and.

gers, a hopper beneath the foldin pressure fingers movable into an outofxthe folded strip dropped thereinto. I

In testimony in presence of two witnesses.

- 'FELIX MARCUS.

Witnesses M. VAN Boosunnc, ARNOLD KA'rz.

37 project. arms 38 extending laterally on the shaft 42 and in thismanner is provided with-a the remainder adjusting the folding rolls tostop whereof I atlix my signature v

